The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-01
TRAINING DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
A New Business Developing for Women ~
New Sork--The Domestic Problem and t.
Soluti0n..Go ood Sorvants Needed.
(E. L. Ii. in Savannah News

new business for women which is just
gaining foothold in New York. It is that
OF teacher Of domestic servants.
She OF the kitchen has SO far ropented
OF hor deficiencies or become so far aware
OF the better pay and better household
positions to be secured by remedyinq
them, that it has become On occupation
which already supports number OF
| capable women Of some executive ability
to go about from house to house, and IL
tho kitchens of the mistresscs or in the
| girls house, or in rooms especially fitted
up for that purpose, to. give practical
lessons III cookery and othor household
arts.
Girls who have not come under this
form OF instruction, in cases whore they
can raiso the money to pay for it, are
beginning to go to tho hotel chefs and
pick up culinary wrinkles, from them.
Thoro is no doubt that certain proper
ton Of the more intelligent Of tho kitch-
en- queens have thoroughly walked up to
the fact that n better order Of domestic
service is called for and will be paid fol
if obtained.
called upon Miss Juliet CorsoD, the
| pioneer Of the cooking schools, in her
rooms ut tho Continental Hotel, yestor-
| duy, to inquire into tho truth OF tho re-
| port of training school for tho servants
on largc scale to be established in New
York under tho auspices Of Secretary
| Whitnoy's wife. Miss Coraon is not in
good health and has many ingenious
conirivanccs for carrying on her literary
work. without rising from her couch on
Nhlc: she spends much Of her time.
"lS is not truC," she said, "that any
definite arrangements have been made,
OF t!at Mrs Whitney has been III com
ulW'j"HtIou with me ut all upon the sub
irrt. 10 not know Of anything dolinitc
'hoAJh to be CNllcd plan on foot in the
| "l.t. At the same time things urc ripe
! i"r just such project, if money enough
| couId be raised to start it on such Il scale
n 20 give it any real influence in the
''ty, ana ii the thing were i'll tho hands
= responsible people practical enough
to know just what to do"
''i' such school were established" |
asked, "locs your experience lead you TO
believe thnt the right kind of girls woutd
| 60 into it? Is not the position Of do
mcStjc servant held in such disrcpute
that Ii would be hard to find the imtclli-
gent and Hclt-reSpCc!ing girl who ought
| t. haNo charge OF tho domestic economy
OF tic kitchen, who would care to fit her
| sell Tor Any such place UY Il profcS8iOn?'
- hat trouble would havU been icit n
few years ago." Miss Corson said. land
| has intcricrrcd with some attempt OF the
! SORT, but tnlngS are beginning to be
different DOW. Anarchy in the kitchen
has Produced such u weeping and wall
ing throughout the land chat it hes pcn-
| ctr"t@d The ears OF scrvautiom, and the
&iiia Themselves know thut it is to the
interest Of their pocket books to do bet
ter"
"WouId American girls go into Il
training school for sorvants?' / asked.
"N"t many, probably. Some wonll
| be Gllu Of Il chance to fit themselves for
positions as supervising or WORKING
| h"uS2hCcpcrH, places which pay better
thnu mauy things which we'll educated
amt Intelligent wOmcn do
at would surprise you to know" Miss
| I0faon went on, chow many girls there
arc who arc only waiting for II chance to
| b0 taught. | have come across numbers
OF thcm who arc ready to give their time
ond their money to learn how TO perform
| thcir duties better, not from any prick.
| lnB OF conscience, but because they know
1t would pay them i'll the end. The
! constant agitation Of the subject has
| produced that much effect at least"
LhG domestic problem il II pCrpleXing
one, nnd thCro have been divers uttcmrts
| ut solution III New York. Several at-
ttMptS nL systematic training OF servants
lNVC been made, ono Of iho most notable
dating from 1873, when II COOKING suhoui
anu industrial training establishment
| the Out3rOWth Of tho financial pnuic
which drove many women TO depend on
Themselves Tor bread and buttcr-wus
established and did good work for some
tImo. y similar institution was opened
III 1878, but fell through largely because
| mnuy Ot tho girls admitted were too
young to take positions III families. The
industrial education association, in which
Miss Grace IL. Dodge, the school COM
| Sloncr, II 80 largely Interested, has cook
| ing classes, OF which Miss Alice Burns is
principal, but the pupils are for the most
| part school children, and the sumo is the
case with the New York Cooking School
| i'll Lafayette place. a start has been
made by the board Of education toward
Introducing cooking us study in the
| girls grummur schools, but the arrange
ment is not likely to go into practical
operation for some time. In Duint of
fNct, the "latcly landed" just set ashore
at Castle Garden huS few places Opcn to
hrr III which shO could preside over the
family digestion II she wished. All at-
tcmpts to prccipitnto domestic reyolu-
ton III the right direction, toward
efficiency i'll the kitchen, in New York,
mo nHdrrcd by that dil,ttamto charity
winch irad# women with money and
Social ambition to get their names placed
upon "hoards" Of all sorts, philanthropic
and 50 mi, i,philanthropic, moro with the
iIe1 ot scoing themselves i'll good com
pnny than with that of bcing any help.
There arc not far from 80, 900 domestic
servants in and about New York. There
is no branch of wOman's industry that is
more OyCrcrOwdcd. The intelligence
Offices Hro full and IN advertisement will
ovcrrun you with dozens of applicants.
| There Is no pHnacca for the evils Of low
wages and long hours among working
women that IS moro absolutely devoid OF
common sense, i'll the city ut least than
the advice to the horde of factory girls
and shop girls to enter domestic service.
They are no better trained for it than
tho army already in it, and to flood us
with more inciiciont servants, when the
| business affords no adequate means for
raising the standard OF those now en-
gagged, would be as prodigious blunder
us was ever devised. Tho cry is for good